Dynatrace changes the game for Sentry Insurance

At Perform 2018, Sentry Insurance walked us through their journey to move their applications to the cloud. Like most companies moving to the cloud, this comes with monitoring challenges and Sentry found the following to be true:

Servers are no longer constant

Each application is different

Need to integrate monitoring into your pipeline

Sentry selected AWS as their cloud provider for many reasons, some of the big ones being robust APIs and ability to show all Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) instances. Having used AppMon for years, the complexity of cloud environments led to monitoring challenges and Sentry was happy to learn Dynatrace could quickly solve these issues, while providing scalability and visibility.

Sentry highlighted a specific example with ELB instances. AppMon didn’t really have visibility, but with Dynatrace (connected with AWS), Sentry could see all the instances of their ELB. This is crucial in providing visibility if something is failing, while detailing what it means to other services running in AWS.

When moving to the cloud, it became obvious what Sentry would need to achieve and how Dynatrace would be a game changer. Spoiler alert – it’s all about automation!

Colleen is a Marketing Manager at Dynatrace. She has been working 16+ years in the IT B2B space and lends her expertise to support various strategic initiatives at Dynatrace, including SAP, ServiceNow, OpenShift, and vertical market messaging. When not at work, you can find her pounding the pavement training for a marathon.